Pure Logistics

We place a premium on forward-looking military thought, but a reflective look at literature from the past can also be useful, especially when that literature marks the intellectual heritage of American planning for national defense. At the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, one of the accepted classics of military literature is Pure Logistics: The Science of War Preparation, written by Lieutenant-Colonel George C. Thorpe of the United States Marine Corps and published originally in 1917…Sta